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Question About sed for Windows

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From: Ronald Satz <transpower <at> aol.com>
To: bug-sed <at> gnu.org
Subject: Question About sed for Windows
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 15:33:07 -0500

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Sirs:  What I'd like to do is substitute a return and line space for each occurrence of a comma.  This would convert a csv file to a flat file.  For example, here is the data for a csv file:


23, 10, -59978, -8109,  -36994, -13901,  -3616, 14636, 10124,  -10157,  8966, 1343, -10838,  13941, 3285,  -129, 16081,  -479800,  -5062,  -4325, 9875, 7100, 45500, 12140, 161100



I'd like to transform this to a column of values:


23
10
-59978
-8109
.
.
.
161100


Using sed for Windows I tried the command 


   sed -silent s/,/\r\n/g peconind.txt


where the txt file includes the comma separated data given above.  The result of this command is


23?
10?
-59978?
-8109?
.
.
.
161100



where, oddly, the last number does not have a question mark, but all of the others do.  Perhaps I'm using the wrong syntax--if so, what is the correct syntax?  On the other hand, perhaps there is a bug in your implementation of sed.  Please let me.


Regards,
Ronald W. Satz, Ph.D.
Transpower Corporation
transpower <at> aol.com

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